03-08-2007, 01:55 PM
The Wardons don't care about no stripers. They would let us club them to death if it were possible.
There are so many stripers, in so much of lake powell that they are about to eat themselves out of house and home. When they do, there will be nothing left but big shad and a few huge stripers. No bass, bluegill, crappie, bullheads to speak of. All eaten by maurading gangs of hungry teenage stripers.
Your rig would work great in Powell. Almost anything does. If it liiks anything like it's edible and you get it naywhere near a Powell Striper, it gets hit.
My favorite way is to motor along watching the sounder, the school shows up well suspended over the deep water. I drift the school throwing big cast masters with a chunk of Anchovie on it. Let it sink on a closely watched freeline till the sounder shows it's gon through the school, it it dosn't get hit. Then reel fast up through the school. Two or three jigs will get a bass every time.
Once you get one on, reel him up slowly, the school will follow, throw out a few pieces of anchovie when you first see your fish. Make sure at least one is just a chunk of anchovie and a split shot being held tight. Reel your fish is as fast as you can when a second line gets hit and grab another rod already rigged with anchovie. You can keep a school right at the boat like this for a good long time if you have 3 guys who work together. We've had fifty fish stops.
Wait until the bass population stabilises for the umbrella rig. It would be to much work to launch and retreive it fifty times a day for 18" fish.
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There are so many stripers, in so much of lake powell that they are about to eat themselves out of house and home. When they do, there will be nothing left but big shad and a few huge stripers. No bass, bluegill, crappie, bullheads to speak of. All eaten by maurading gangs of hungry teenage stripers.
Your rig would work great in Powell. Almost anything does. If it liiks anything like it's edible and you get it naywhere near a Powell Striper, it gets hit.
My favorite way is to motor along watching the sounder, the school shows up well suspended over the deep water. I drift the school throwing big cast masters with a chunk of Anchovie on it. Let it sink on a closely watched freeline till the sounder shows it's gon through the school, it it dosn't get hit. Then reel fast up through the school. Two or three jigs will get a bass every time.
Once you get one on, reel him up slowly, the school will follow, throw out a few pieces of anchovie when you first see your fish. Make sure at least one is just a chunk of anchovie and a split shot being held tight. Reel your fish is as fast as you can when a second line gets hit and grab another rod already rigged with anchovie. You can keep a school right at the boat like this for a good long time if you have 3 guys who work together. We've had fifty fish stops.
Wait until the bass population stabilises for the umbrella rig. It would be to much work to launch and retreive it fifty times a day for 18" fish.
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